ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,781, issued on July 29, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).
"Intelligent image recommendations" was invented by Matthew Capers (San Francisco), Marsal Gavalda (Sandy Springs, Ga.) and Roshan Jhunja (Scarsdale, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for obtaining images that are representative of items of inventory are described herein. A service provider may receive transaction data from a plurality of merchants and access visual representation data associated with items in the inventory of the plurality of merchants. The service provider may receive from a merchant an indication of intent to add an item of inventor...